The Beatles Collection: This is a closet queen of a find, stored carefully for 40 years. Museum quality. Even among available copies of this box set you won’t find one that meets the superior quality of this one. These 1978 vinyl pressings have never been played. No scuffs, no marks, no damage whatsoever. What is included:

1. The original cardboard shipping carton, marked with the number 0215, showing the provenance of this limited edition. (For shipping it will be double boxed with this carton inside.)

2. The blue box itself, which would still have the shrink wrap except for a zealous customs inspector who just had to look inside. The torn shrink wrap is included in the sale (see photos).

3. All 11 of the original British pressings of single LPs, plus the double White album, all in their original individual shrink wrap.

4. “The Rarities” compilation of singles and oddities, a 12” LP in a paper slipcover that has some minor circular scuffing (see photo).

5. A reprint of the large poster that came with the White album in mint condition.

You can pay more, but you won’t find better. As my feedback shows – quality product shipped fast at reasonable prices!

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Beatles Mini-Festival

Ron Howard’s new film Eight Days a Week got me looking for what could be found in my CD library. Here are some Beatle/Apple discs you might not have in your collection yet.

000. The Beatles Collection (Blue Box 1978) – The Beatles (All pristine, unplayed vinyl albums in the original shrink wrap. The collector’s item that completes a collection.)

1. All Things Must Pass – George Harrison

2. Love – The Beatles (remix by George and Giles Martin for Cirque de Soleil)

3. Let it Be...Naked – The Beatles

4. Live at the BBC – The Beatles

5. Doris Troy – Doris Troy (hard-driving R&B with George, Ringo, Clapton and the Dominoes)

6. Revolver – The Beatles

7. Plastic One Band – John Lennon

*****And be sure to check my listings for other great and unusual CDs. Tag me as a favorite seller and you'll see many bargain priced off the wall CDs come up during the year.*****

Note: I use eBay's product description when I can, however, they are not always accurate and sometimes are a slightly different version. Check photos to be sure of the playlist, label, date and so on. Thanks.

I answered a question but it wasn't added to the listing. Here's some additional info I gave.

I’m happy to answer as best I can; see the Wikipedia link I sent for the basic background.

Some strange rules existed in the “pre-global” days. In England regulators didn’t allow records to be played on radio to keep musicians employed. That’s the reason for the Beatles’ BBC recordings (which I have listed on CD).

On the American side, the RIAA pushed for a “12 song limit” on LPs. As a result the UK releases were usually 14 cuts and two were left off of American versions. See these two links to compare.

http://dmbeatles.com/discography.php?category=1

http://dmbeatles.com/discography.php?category=2

There are American LPs that were never issued in the UK to catch up for the songs that had been dropped. One important one was “Yesterday and Today” – which had the famous Dadaist cover with raw meat. Those LPs were pulled back and had a new cover pasted over, creating an instant collector’s item. I’ve still got a promo poster of it (exceedingly rare) in my office (see photo).

Americans wanted the original UK releases with the UK covers and Capitol came up with this limited box set. They imported the British releases, which explains the stickers you can see in the photos on my listing.

This brings us to the “Rarities” LP. Wikipedia’s footnote 3 mentions AllMusic, where some info is given. The small pressing of this compilation LP puts together tunes that were rare in Britain. It was never released, only in the Blue Box, and I guess they were too cheap to give it a cardboard outer cover. They just printed up an inner sleeve and went with that – no shrink wrap, no liner notes, no photos.

My Blue Box set is exactly as it was originally sold for the 1978 holiday season. Nothing added. I was in the music industry in those days. Most of this limited edition never reached the public. It was snapped up by Capitol employees and industry insiders like myself, and I was damn lucky to find my way to this low number in the edition. I hope that helps answer your question.